MY 5 STRENGHES REPORT -GallupReport

Strengths Insight and Action-Planning Guide
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-05-2013
Sherihan Mohamed Hussein
Your Top 5 Themes
Includer
Activator
Achiever
Woo
Communication
What's in This Guide?
Section I: Awareness
A brief Shared Theme Description for each of your top five themes
Your Personalized Strengths Insights, which describe what makes you stand out from others
with the same theme in their top five
Questions for you to answer to increase your awareness of your talents
Section II: Application
10 Ideas for Action for each of your top five themes
Questions for you to answer to help you apply your talents
Section III: Achievement
Examples of what each of your top five themes "sounds like" -- real quotes from people who
also have the theme in their top five
Steps for you to take to help you leverage your talents for achievement
451849562 (Sherihan Mohamed Hussein)
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Section I: Awareness
Includer
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Includer theme are accepting of others. They show
awareness of those who feel left out, and make an effort to include them.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you find a way to involve everyone so each person has a good experience.
You strive to create a sense of belonging and acceptance. When someone feels left out, you often are
the person who finds a way to engage that individual in the group’s activities and conversations.
Because of your strengths, you are more sensitive than most people to what it feels like to be left out
of a group, a conversation, or an activity. This is apt to explain why you intentionally invite a wide
range of individuals into your circle of friends, family, or acquaintances. Chances are good that you
usually are more enthused about life when you can exchange ideas, entertain, or work with people.
You prefer being someone’s partner or teammate. You probably have little interest in working alone to
coordinate the activities of individuals or groups. It’s very likely that you work with much more intensity
in the evening. This awareness probably allows you to increase your productivity, improve the quality
of your outcomes, enhance your efficiency, and better manage your priorities. By nature, you feel life
is wonderful when you can forge bonds with many of the individuals you meet. You have a gift for
befriending just about anyone. You immediately notice those whom others leave out of conversations,
forget to involve in meetings, or fail to invite to social events.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?
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Activator
People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning
thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
Chances are good that you relish talking to others. Frequently you help people express their opinions,
thoughts, or viewpoints with enthusiasm. Your words frequently energize individuals or groups. Driven
by your talents, you commonly inspire your teammates to be as enthused as you are about various
jobs, opportunities, events, causes, or ideas. By nature, you notice that people heed your demands.
What you say and how you say it can even frighten and threaten people. You probably have used this
effect to influence individuals to do what you want. Instinctively, you rely on your upbeat attitude to
help people feel enthusiastic about life. You regularly direct their attention to what is good, beautiful,
delightful, right, or possible. Others usually notice it is difficult to feel downcast — that is, in low spirits
or dejected — when in your presence. It’s very likely that you want to be in charge. As soon as you
have made up your mind, you are eager to get started. People who interfere with your progress
probably irritate you.
Questions
you?
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Achiever
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work
hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
Instinctively, you put forth much effort and expend a lot of energy whenever you work or study. Even
so, you usually question whether you could accomplish more than you currently do. This restlessness
to excel probably motivates you to be highly productive each day. Because of your strengths, you
push yourself and persevere to reach your goals. You reject the notion that life is a contest that others
must lose so you can win. Instead, you seek and find your own challenges. You aim for higher levels
of excellence. You are determined to be more productive than you have been in the past. You are
motivated from within to prove yourself to yourself each day. It’s very likely that you automatically set
aside time to map out the coming months, years, or decades. You realize the hard work of thinking
must precede the implementation of any long-range plans. You have discovered that your success
depends on it. Chances are good that you normally tackle projects with gusto. New assignments or
challenges energize your life. Facing mundane, tedious, or routine chores day after day eventually
undermines your upbeat attitude. Driven by your talents, you strive to complete many tasks prior to
their deadlines. As a result, you usually have ample time to think through your ideas, decisions, or
plans. You tend to feel ill-prepared when you are forced into action.
Questions
you?
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Woo
People who are especially talented in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and
winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with
another person.
Driven by your talents, you probably derive far less satisfaction from your work or studies when you
are separated from your friends. Partnering with them usually motivates you to work very hard to
complete tasks and reach goals. Because of your strengths, you enjoy the companionship of others
and relish social activities. You are apt to be the person who moves around the room getting
acquainted and reacquainted with people. You typically do not spend all your time huddled in the
corner with one or two best friends. By nature, you undoubtedly are talkative in social situations. You
have a good time circulating from group to group. You feel wonderful about life when people
appreciate your unreserved, gregarious, and friendly nature. It’s very likely that you repeatedly
question whether you place too much confidence in people you are meeting for the first time. Even so,
you are inclined to engage newcomers or outsiders in casual chitchat. In the process, you often tell
them about your interests, experiences, successes, talents, or shortcomings. When you share
personal information, strangers typically reveal more about themselves than they normally do.
Instinctively, you characteristically introduce yourself to outsiders or newcomers. Your smile
encourages them to open up and tell you about themselves. This is just one way you expand your
network. You probably find that life becomes much more interesting when you have as many old
friends as you have new acquaintances.
Questions
you?
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Communication
People who are especially talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their
thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters.
It’s very likely that you customarily facilitate the group’s conversation. You carry yourself with an air of
distinction. You take charge quite naturally. Nevertheless you appreciate the willingness of people to
openly exchange ideas. By nature, you welcome the opportunity to regale people with your stories.
Witty and engaging, your verbal exchanges generate excitement. You frequently capture and keep
your audience’s attention. Driven by your talents, you openly admit that you participate in friendly
rivalries for fun. You are comfortable letting people know what you do and do not value. Chances are
good that you are the perfect guest at gatherings where few people know each other. You quite easily
engage one individual in conversation. Based on what you hear, you probably involve others who
share similar interests or exhibit curiosity about various topics. Once you get a small group chatting,
you are apt to excuse yourself to start the process all over again with another newcomer. You often
are the catalyst for animated verbal exchanges. Instinctively, you value what others have to say. You
pay attention to the observations they make. You acquire knowledge, skills, and insights from your
peers during group conversations. You exhibit a strong inclination to participate in dialogue with
others so new ideas are brought to everyone’s attention.
Questions
you?
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Questions
1. How does this information help you better understand your unique talents?
2. How can you use this understanding to add value to your role?
3. How can you apply this knowledge to add value to your team, workgroup, department, or
division?
4. How will this understanding help you add value to your organization?
5. What will you do differently tomorrow as a result of this report?
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Section II: Application
Includer
Ideas for Action:
Consider roles in which you can take responsibility for representing voices that are
not usually heard. You will derive a great deal of satisfaction from being a
spokesperson for these people.
Look for opportunities to bring together people of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
You can be a leader in this area.
Help those who are new to an organization or group get to know other people. You
will always be adept at quickly making people feel accepted and involved.
An anti-elitist, you may clash with those who feel they have earned the right to perks
and power. Rather than disputing their claim, use your Includer insights to help
everyone find common ground and value in their contributions.
Acknowledge the dissonance you feel when you must be the bearer of bad news.
Look for partners who can help you justify your position so you don’t apologize or
soften the message too much.
Not every person is lovable or even likeable. While many of your friends or colleagues
may be put off by difficult people, you have a natural capacity to truly care for all
people. Let others know that if they ever come to the end of their rope with a
problematic individual, they can call on you to step in.
Choose roles in which you are continuously working and interacting with people. You
will enjoy the challenge of making everyone feel important.
Partner with someone who has dominant Activator or Command talents. This person
can help you when you have to deliver news that might hurt someone’s feelings.
Realize that people will relate to each other through you. You are a conduit for
information. You can interact with all parts and all people in a group and keep them
effectively connected to each other.
Explain what we all have in common. Help others understand that to respect the
differences among us (our diversity), we must begin by appreciating what we all share
(our similarity).
Questions
1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.
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Activator
Ideas for Action:
Seek work in which you can make your own decisions and act on them. In particular,
look for start-up or turnaround situations.
At work, make sure that your manager judges you on measurable outcomes rather
than your process. Your process is not always pretty.
You can transform innovative ideas into immediate action. Look for creative and
original thinkers, and help them move their ideas from conceptual theory to concrete
practice.
Look for areas that are bogged down by discussion or blocked by barriers. End the
stalemate by creating a plan to get things moving and spur others into action.
You learn more from real experience than from theoretical discussions. To grow,
consciously expose yourself to challenging experiences that will test your talents,
skills, and knowledge.
Remember that although your tenacity is powerful, it may intimidate some. Your
Activator talents will be most effective when you have first earned others’ trust and
loyalty.
Identify the most influential decision makers in your organization. Make it a point to
have lunch with each of them at least once a quarter to share your ideas. They can
support you in your activation and provide critical resources to make your ideas
happen.
You can easily energize the plans and ideas of others. Consider partnering with
focused, futuristic, strategic, or analytical people who will lend their direction and
planning to your activation, thereby creating an opportunity to build consensus and
get others behind the plan. By doing this, you complement each other.
Give the reasons why your requests for action must be granted. Otherwise, others
might dismiss you as impatient and label you a ‘ready, fire, aim’ person.
You possess an ability to create motion and momentum in others. Be strategic and
wise in the use of your Activator talents. When is the best time, where is the best
place, and who are the best people with whom to leverage your valuable influence?
Questions
take.
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Achiever
Ideas for Action:
Select jobs that allow you to have the leeway to work as hard as you want and in
which you are encouraged to measure your own productivity. You will feel challenged
and alive in these environments.
As an achiever, you relish the feeling of being busy, yet you also need to know when
you are “done.” Attach timelines and measurement to goals so that effort leads to
defined progress and tangible outcomes.
Remember to build celebration and recognition into your life. Achievers tend to move
on to the next challenge without acknowledging their successes. Counter this impulse
by creating regular opportunities to enjoy your progress and accomplishments.
Your drive for action might cause you to find meetings a bit boring. If that’s the case,
appeal to your Achiever talents by learning the objectives of each meeting ahead of
time and by taking notes about progress toward those objectives during the meeting.
You can help ensure that meetings are productive and efficient.
Continue your education by attaining certifications in your area or specialty in addition
to attending conferences and other programs. This will give you even more goals to
achieve and will push your existing boundaries of accomplishment.
You do not require much motivation from others. Take advantage of your self-
motivation by setting challenging goals. Set a more demanding goal every time you
finish a project.
Partner with other hard workers. Share your goals with them so they can help you to
get more done.
Count personal achievements in your scoring “system.” This will help you direct your
Achiever talents toward family and friends as well as toward work.
More work excites you. The prospect of what lies ahead is infinitely more motivating
than what has been completed. Launch initiatives and new projects. Your seemingly
endless reserve of energy will create enthusiasm and momentum.
Make sure that in your eagerness to do more at work, you do not skimp on quality.
Create measurable outcome standards to guarantee that increased productivity is
matched by enhanced quality.
Questions
take.
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Woo
Ideas for Action:
Choose a job in which you can interact with many people over the course of a day.
Deliberately build the network of people who know you. Tend to it by checking in with
each person at least once a month.
Join local organizations, volunteer for committees, and find out how to get on the
social lists of the influential people where you live.
Learn the names of as many people as you can. Create a file of the people you know,
and add names as you become acquainted. Include a snippet of personal information
— such as their birthday, favorite color, hobby, or favorite sports team.
In social situations, take responsibility for helping put reserved people at ease.
Find the right words to explain that networking is part of your style. If you don’t claim
this theme, others might mistake it for insincerity and wonder why you are being so
friendly.
Partner with someone with dominant Relator or Empathy talents. This person can
solidify the relationships that you begin.
Your Woo talents give you the ability to quicken the pulse of your surroundings.
Recognize the power of your presence and how you open doors for an exchange of
ideas. By simply starting conversations that engage others and bring talented people
together, you will take performance up a notch — or several.
The first moments of any social occasion are crucial to how comfortable people will be
and how they will remember the event. Whenever possible, be one of the first people
others meet. Your capacity for meeting and greeting new people will help to quickly
put them at ease.
Practice ways to charm and engage others. For example, research people before you
meet them so you can talk about your common interests.
Questions
take.
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Communication
Ideas for Action:
You will always do well in roles that require you to capture people’s attention. Think
about a career in teaching, sales, marketing, ministry, or the media. Your
Communication talents are likely to flourish in these areas.
Start a collection of stories or phrases that resonate with you. For example, cut out
magazine articles that move you, or write down powerful word combinations. Practice
telling these stories or saying these words out loud, by yourself. Listen to yourself
actually saying the words. Refine.
When you are presenting, pay close attention to your audience. Watch their reactions
to each part of your presentation. You will notice that some parts are especially
engaging. Afterwards, take time to identify the moments that particularly caught the
audience’s attention. Draft your next presentation around these highlights.
Practice. Improvisation has a certain appeal, but in general, an audience will respond
best to a presenter who knows where he or she is headed. Counterintuitively, the
more prepared you are, the more natural your improvisations will appear.
Identify your most beneficial sounding boards and audiences — the listeners who
seem to bring out your best communication. Examine these individuals or groups to
learn why you are so good when you speak with them or to them, and look for the
same qualities in potential partners and audiences.
Keep getting smarter about the words you use. They are a critical currency. Spend
them wisely, and monitor their impact.
Your Communication talents can be highly effective when your message has
substance. Don’t rely on your talents alone; take your communication to the level of
strength by developing your knowledge and expertise in specific areas.
You are gifted in fostering dialogue among peers and colleagues. Use your
Communication talents to summarize the various points in a meeting and to build
consensus by helping others see what they have in common.
If you enjoy writing, consider publishing your work. If you enjoy public speaking, make
a presentation at a professional meeting or convention. In either case, your
Communication talents will serve to assist you in finding just the right way to frame
your ideas and state your purpose. You delight in sharing your thoughts with others,
so find the medium that best fits your voice and message.
Volunteer for opportunities to present. You can become known as someone who
helps people express their thoughts and ambitions in a captivating way.
Questions
take.
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Section III: Achievement
Look for signs of achievement as you read these real quotes from people who share your top five
themes.
Includer sounds like this:
Harry B., outplacement consultant: “Even as a child, although I was very shy, I always made sure that
I was the one inviting others to play. When picking teams or sides in school, I never wanted anyone
not to participate with us. In fact, I can remember when I was ten or eleven, I had a friend who was
not a member of our church. We were at a church banquet, and he showed up at the door because
typically we had our youth activity at the church on that night. Immediately, I got up, brought him over
to our family, and sat him down at the table.”
Jeremy B., defense lawyer: “When I first started this job, I met people and became fast, furious friends
with them almost on day one, only to find out later that, you know, this person’s got a lot of issues,
and I’ve already included them in dinner parties and our social circle. My partner, Mark, is like, ‘What
is it exactly that made you want to include this person?’ And then it’s a matter of figuring out what
pushed my buttons when I first met them, what made me enjoy them so much. And, you know,
making sure that this is the aspect of them that Mark and I focus on . . . because once I include
someone in my circle, I don’t dump them.”
Giles D., corporate trainer: “In class, I seem to be able to sense when someone is disengaging from
the group discussion, and I immediately draw them back into the conversation. Last week, we got into
a lengthy discussion about performance appraisals, and one woman wasn’t talking at all. So I just
said, ‘Monica, you’ve had performance appraisals. Any thoughts on the subject?’ I really think this has
helped me as a teacher because when I don’t know the answer to something, very often it is the
person I pull in who supplies the answer for me.”
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Activator sounds like this:
Jane C., Benedictine nun: “When I was prioress in the 1970s, we were hit by the energy shortage,
and costs skyrocketed. We had a hundred and forty acres, and I walked the acreage every day
pondering what we should do about this energy shortage. Suddenly I decided that if we had that much
land, we should be drilling our own gas well, and so we did. We spent one hundred thousand dollars
to drill a gas well. If you have never drilled a gas well, you probably don’t realize what I didn’t realize:
namely, that you have to spend seventy thousand dollars just to drill to see if you have any gas on
your property at all. So they dug down with some kind of vibratory camera thing, and they told me that
I had a gas pool. But they didn’t know how large the pool was, and they didn’t know if there was
enough pressure to bring it up. ‘If you pay another thirty thousand dollars, we will try to release the
well,’ they said. ‘If you don’t want us to, we’ll just cap the well, take your seventy thousand, and go
home.’ So I gave them the final thirty thousand and, fortunately, up it came. That was twenty years
ago, and it is still pumping.”
Jim L., entrepreneur: “Some people see my impatience as not wanting to listen to the traps, the
potential roadblocks. What I keep repeating is, ‘I want to know when I am going to hit the wall, and I
need you to tell me how much it is going to hurt. But if I choose to bump into the wall anyway, then
don’t worry — you’ve done your job. I just had to experience it for myself.’”
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Achiever sounds like this:
Melanie K., ER nurse: “I have to rack up points every day to feel successful. Today I’ve been here
only half an hour, but I’ve probably racked up thirty points already. I ordered equipment for the ER, I
had equipment repaired, I had a meeting with my charge nurse, and I brainstormed with my secretary
about improving our computerized logbook. So on my list of ninety things, I have thirty done already.
I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now.”
Ted S., salesperson: “Last year I was salesperson of the year out of my company’s three hundred
salespeople. It felt good for a day, but sure enough, later that week, it was as if it never happened. I
was back at zero again. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t an achiever because it can lead me away from a
balanced life and toward obsession. I used to think I could change myself, but now I know I am just
wired this way. This theme is truly a double-edged sword. It helps me achieve my goals, but on the
other hand, I wish I could just turn it off and on at will. But, hey, I can’t. I can manage it and avoid work
obsession by focusing on achieving in all parts of my life, not just work.”
Sara L., writer: “This theme is a weird one. First, it’s good because you live in pursuit of the perpetual
challenge. But in the second place, you never feel as though you’ve reached your goal. It can keep
you running uphill at seventy miles an hour for your whole life. You never rest because there’s always
more to do. But, on balance, I think I would rather have it than not. I call it my ‘divine restlessness,’
and if it makes me feel as if I owe the present everything I have, then so be it. I can live with that.”
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Woo sounds like this:
Deborah C., publishing executive: “I have made best friends out of people that I have met passing in
the doorway. I mean, it’s awful, but wooing is part of who I am. All my taxi drivers propose to me.”
Marilyn K., college president: “I don’t believe I’m looking for friends, but people call me a friend. I call
people and say, ‘I love you,’ and I mean it because I love people easily. But friends? I don’t have
many friends. I don’t think I am looking for friends. I am looking for connections. And I am really good
at that because I know how to achieve common ground with people.”
Anna G., nurse: “I think I am a little shy sometimes. Usually I won’t make the first step out. But I do
know how to put people at ease. A lot of my job is just humor. If the patient is not very receptive, my
role becomes that of a stand-up comedian. I’ll say to an eighty-year-old patient, ‘Hi, you handsome
guy. Sit up. Let me get your shirt off. That’s good. Take your shirt off. Whoa, what a chest on this
man!’ With kids, you have to start very slowly and say something like, ‘How old are you?’ If they say,
‘Ten,’ then I say, ‘Really? When I was your age, I was eleven’ — silly stuff like that to break the ice.”
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Communication sounds like this:
Sheila K., general manager of a theme park: “Stories are the best way to make my point. Yesterday I
wanted to show my executive committee the impact we can have on our guests, so I shared this story
with them: One of our employees brought her father to the flag-raising ceremony we have for
Veterans Day here at the theme park. He was disabled during World War II, and he now has a rare
form of cancer and has had a lot of surgery. He’s dying. At the start of the ceremony, one of our
employees said to the group, ‘This man is a World War II veteran. Can we give him a hand?’
Everybody cheered, and his daughter started crying. Her dad took off his hat. He never takes off his
hat because of the scars on his head from the war and the cancer surgery, but when the national
anthem started, he took off his hat and bowed his head. His daughter told me later that it was the best
day he’s had in years.”
Tom P., banking executive: “My most recent client thought that the flow of capital toward Internet
stocks was just a passing phase. I tried using a rational argument to change his mind, but he couldn’t
or wouldn’t be convinced. In the end, as I often do when faced with a client in denial, I resorted to
imagery. I told him that he was like a person sitting on a beach with his back to the sea. The Internet
was like a fast-rising tide. No matter how comfortable he felt right now, the tide was rising with each
crashing wave, and very soon, one of those waves would come crashing down over his head and
engulf him. He got the point.”
Margret D., marketing director: “I once read a book about giving speeches that gave two suggestions:
Talk only about things you’re really passionate about, and always use personal examples. I
immediately started doing that, and I found lots of stories because I have kids and grandkids and a
husband. I build my stories around my personal experiences because everyone can relate to them.”
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Questions
1. Talk to friends or coworkers to hear how they have used their talents to achieve.
2. How will you use your talents to achieve?
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